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Music Quotes: The Healing-Art of Music
"Music, the greatest good that mortals know. And all of heaven we have below." - Alfred Addison
“If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, or if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish the answer.” – Confucius
"If you are able to discover your own keynote or chord and play it over gently to yourself, you will revive as if by magic. Your keynote can be ascertained by listening to some good music. When the note is played it will send a thrill right through you." - Vera Stanley Alder
“Rhythm and harmony
enter most powerfully into the inner most part of the soul and lay forcible
hands upon it, bearing grace with them, so making graceful him who is
rightly trained.” - Plato
"Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life." ~
Berthold Auerbach
"Music raises in the mind of the hearer great conceptions: it strengthens and advances praise into rapture." ~Joseph Addison
"The knower of the mystery of sound knows the mystery of the whole universe." - Hazrat Inayat Khan
"If you want to know the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration." ~ Nikola Tesla
"There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he
was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent."
- Montaigne
“I knew a very wise man who believed that if a man were permitted to make
all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation.”
- Andrew Fletcher, author and orator, (quote was recorded in
Scottish Parliament in 1704)
“Music can be soothing
or invigorating ennobling or vulgarizing, philosophical or orgiastic.
It has powers of evil as well as for good.” ~ Dr. Howard Hanson, Directory
of the Eastman School of Music at University of Rochester
"Take a music bath once
or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul
what the water-bath is to the body."
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes "
"Music making makes the elderly healthier....
There were significant decreases in anxiety, depression, and loneliness
following keyboard lessons. These are factors that are critical in coping with
stress, stimulating the immune system, and in improved health. Results also show
significant increases in human growth hormones following the same group keyboard
lessons. (Human growth hormone is implicated in aches and pains.)" ~
Dr. Frederick Tims, reported in AMC Music News, June 2, 1999
"At that elusive moment when we transcend our ordinary performance and feel
in harmony with something else—whether it's a glorious sunset, inspiring
music or another human being—our studies have shown that what we are really
coming in sync with is ourselves. Not only do we feel more relaxed and at
peace, but this entrained state increases our ability to perform well and
offers numerous health benefits."
~
Doc Childre and Howard Martin,
HeartMath
Solution
"Rhythm is the soul of
life. The whole universe revolves in rhythm. Every thing and every human
action revolves in rhythm." Baba Tunji
"Music has charms to soothe a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a
knotted oak." - William Congreve
"The power of music to integrate and cure. . . is quite fundamental. It is
the profoundest nonchemical medication." - Oliver Sacks, Awakenings
"I think music in itself is
healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are
all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves
music." ~ Billy Joel
"If you want to know the secrets of the universe, think in terms of
energy, frequency and vibration." ~ Nikola Tesla
"Music has a great power for bringing people
together. With so many forces in this world acting to drive wedges between
people, it’s important to preserve those things that help us experience our
common humanity." — Ted Turner, Turner
Broadcasting System.
“The earth has music for those who listen.” ~William Shakespeare
Lessons
Essays and Articles -
Educational and health benefits of
music
"Music is the language of the Soul" -
Rajgopal Nidamboor's article Instruments